A peer and human rights campaigner has urged the government to ensure that renewable energy supply chains are free from modern slavery, warning that Chinese solar products are “badly tainted” by Uyghur slave labour.
Crossbench peer Lord David Alton of Liverpool made the remarks in the House of Lords on Tuesday as peers continued to scrutinise the Great British Energy Bill, which will establish a new, publicly-funded green energy company.
The peer said that the Chinese communist regime “has a stranglehold on the renewables supply chain.”
He added that a large proportion of solar panels are made using polysilicon from Xinjiang and is tied to the forced labour from Uyghurs, the ethnic Muslim minorities who live in the province….

A peer and human rights campaigner has urged the government to ensure that renewable energy supply chains are free from modern slavery, warning that Chinese solar products are “badly tainted” by Uyghur slave labour.
Crossbench peer Lord David Alton of Liverpool made the remarks in the House of Lords on Tuesday as peers continued to scrutinise the Great British Energy Bill, which will establish a new, publicly-funded green energy company.
The peer said that the Chinese communist regime “has a stranglehold on the renewables supply chain.”
He added that a large proportion of solar panels are made using polysilicon from Xinjiang and is tied to the forced labour from Uyghurs, the ethnic Muslim minorities who live in the province….